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Mr. Bush’s aides insisted the new, sharper stump speech was the president’s own creation, the result of his line editing.

Is it me, or is this “insistence” becoming a daily ritual? Does it ever strike them that going out of their way to give Bush personal credit for clever little pieces of snark while passing the buck on everything that matters makes him look like a little kid playing with Madlibs while the house burns down around him?